Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squads. El Salvador's Human Rights Commission, a private organization, estimates that two-thirds of the killings were done by the right, though Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, a government critic, contends that slayings by the guerrillas are on the rise. One night last week, there was a knock at the door of a small house in the city of Santa Ana. Alida Fidelina Miranda de Escobar, 35, a kindergarten teacher, answered the door and was confronted by five masked gunmen. As her three young girls begged, "Don't shoot Mama!" Miranda was killed in a hail...
...late at night. You're alone in your room. There's a knock at the door. You open it to find an FTD delivery man holding a bouquet of flowers. He reaches into his pocket and nonchalantly pulls out a blue water pistol. "You're dead," he says...
...most outstanding swim of the night for the Crimson came from sophomore Maureen Gildea. Swimming as the twelfth seed in the 500-yd. freestyle, Gildea overpowered the consolation heat, to knock eight seconds off her time and finish with the seventh fastest time...
...Contract Diseases," though, came after the intermission--and by then any breathalyzer readings in the theater would have gone haywire. People were clapping along and drinking the champagne from the bottle, and if the show's cast had sat down on the edge of the stage and told "knock-knock" jokes the giggles would have been uncontrollable. The Hasty Pudding Show will continue as long as there are people who go to the theater to do what they want to do, which in this case is drink and laugh; as long as the alumni who buy tickets want to remember...
...shot didn't fall, however, and after a knock-'em down-scramble for the rebound--at least five players ended up on the floor--Princeton's Christel wound up with the ball and lofted a baseball throw to Mills, who sunk a fast break lay-up which brought the crowd to its feet...